The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Malnutrition in Nigeria: Special Focus on Strategic Solutions-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Malnutrition in Nigeria: Special Focus on Strategic Solutions

Published:2021-03-13 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Author:

Aborode Abdullahi¹,Fajemisin Emmanuel²,Awoniyi Oluwasola³,Akinremi Quadri⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria

2. Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, Akure, PMB 704, Nigeria

3. Foods and Genes Initiative, Research and Development, Lagos, Nigeria

4. Department of Home Economics and Food Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin PMB 1515 Kwara state. Nigeria.

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the rising spate of malnutrition burden especially in under-5 children in Africa, and Nigeria as the most populous black nation is grossly affected. Amidst lingering hunger, and food insecurity issues; the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic is expected to severely exacerbated malnutrition in Nigeria especially in children and women. Concurrently, the malnutrition spate is also a contributing factor to increase the impact of infectious diseases like COVID-19 in Nigeria, hence there is need to consider their impacts together and provide striking interventions. This commentary article presents a perspective on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and child malnutrition burden in Nigeria; with special focus on strategic solutions so as to improve the health and well-being Nigerian children.

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ScienceOpen

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